The Syndicalist Federation of Zelenaya Dolina is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Council of the Cantons with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.042 billion Dolinians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Artyopolis - Hokulani. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dolinian economy, worth 476 trillion Pacific Guilders a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,921 Pacific Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, and the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zelenaya Dolina's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Zelenaya Dolina is ranked 15,429^th in the world and 653^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 323.91 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.